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Related, one of my favourite jokes is to correct another person's pronunciation of pronunciation when they say to a third party "the correct pronunciation of is " (Is pronunciation pronounced "pro-noun-see-ation" or "pro-nun-see-ation"?)
I had this discussion last week. I say the former because it's more consistent (nobody says "prenunced").
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That's a valid stance, but if you want to take that attitude then reply to the person that suggested spelling reform in the first place, not me.
I don't think he was suggesting that.
My original comment is in the context of spelling reform.
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I consider this sexist and will continue to use "it".
Why is it sexist, surely it is linguistic gender and has nothing to do with biological sex? Of course, you can use "it", your choice. Mind you I find the forced overlaying of sex onto language absurd, my late mother was chairman of many committees and always complained when people started calling her "chair"; I agree.
The tradition refers to some sort of mother / goddess protection the sailors are hoping for.
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I was googling whether Hindi is 100% phonetic. Is this accurate? https://old.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/hrl6lp/comment... I thought to check because if you look into Spanish for example, it is often thought to be phonetic but it really isn't 100% phonetic either.
Are the counterexamples in Spanish for native words, not just recent loanwords? If so could you tell me what they are? This is something I've looked into a bit before but I couldn't find any concrete counterexamples in Spanish.
x has the most different sounds (as an example for going from writing to sound)
Going from sounds to writing, I'll focus on one writing difference (but there are more in the above link): For the /k/ sound, it's "qu" before e or i but "c" in other words. (ignoring the letter "k" in borrowed words)
Examples: queso. casa.
https://spanishroute.com/podcast/stage-10-letters-c-z-k-x-qu...